al-Nasawī, al-Rayyānī—pronounced with a single yā’, though the Emir Abū Naṣr records it with a doubled consonant⦗1⦘. It is also said: al-Radhānī, and that is the sounder form. Radhān—with a dotted dhāl—is a village belonging to the district of Nasā.
He heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī, Ḥamīd ibn Zanjūyah, and others of their rank. Some report that he also studied under Abū Muṣʿab.
He transmitted, on the authority of Ibn Zanjūyah, the book al-Targhīb wa-l-Tarhīb (Encouragement and Deterrence).
Among those who narrated from him were Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr the judge, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Aḥmad al-Ghitrīf, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Samʿān, and many others.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable.
Al-Ḥākim said: “I asked his grandson—while we were in Radhān—about his grandfather’s death, and he replied, ‘In the year 313 AH.’”
Our statement that al-Ṭabarānī transmitted from him is cited by al-Khaṭīb⦗2⦘, yet I myself have not been able to locate it.
Al-Ḥākim also noted: “He taught the book al-Targhīb in Nīshāpūr more than once.”
I read to Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh; al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us in the year 551 AH at Baalbek; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Harawī informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī